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Bill Gates donates $750 million to global AIDS fund By John Callaham Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates recently put a rest to some rumors that he was planning to return full time to Microsoft, saying he was committed to his work with his charitable organization the Bill and Melinda Gates...

(CNN) -- Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says NATO has become a "two-tiered" alliance poorly equipped to deal with challenges, and with members either unable or unwilling to carry out agreed missions in Afghanistan and Libya. In his farewell speech Friday to the NATO Council in...

BRUSSELS America's military alliance with Europe — the cornerstone of U.S. security policy for six decades — faces a "dim, if not dismal" future, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in a blunt valedictory address. In his final policy speech as Pentagon chief, Gates questioned the...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WALTON, Afghanistan – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed his concern about pulling troops out of Afghanistan too soon as he embarked Sunday on two days of farewell visits to remote U.S. bases in this war-weary country. He began by flying to a base near Kandahar...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Four NATO service members were killed Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, but this didn't stop U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates from touting security strides that could help coalition and Afghan forces turn "a corner" in the fight against...

WASHINGTON, -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the U.S. Army's expenditure of $32 billion on failed weapons programs since 1995 "vexing and disturbing." The Washington Post reported an Army study not released to the public indicated 22 Army weapons programs were shut down and never built...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Bill Gates' foundation and Abu Dhabi's crown prince are donating $50 million each to vaccinate children in Afghanistan and Pakistan against polio and other diseases. Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation say two-thirds of...

-- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that the presence of American forces in Japan is critical to meet security challenges in Asia amid the tension in the Korean Peninsula. "To deal with this century's critical challenges, critical component will remain the forward presence of...

-- China took its latest powerful toy, a new stealth fighter jet, out for its first test spin Tuesday, leading U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to wonder whether the flight was scheduled to coincide with his visit. "I asked President Hu (Jintao) about it directly," Gates said at a briefing...

-- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday that North Korea is becoming a direct threat to the United States, asserting that the rogue Communist regime is within five years of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. "I think that North Korea will have developed an...

A Chinese honor guard stands to attention during a welcoming ceremony for U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday on the first stop of his weeklong trip to Asia. It is Gates' second visit to...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates touched down at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a surprise trip to visit troops. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates touched down at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a surprise trip to visit troops. The visit comes one...

Washington-- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered an investigation into a leak to the Washington Post about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Post earlier this week reported that more than 70 percent of service members surveyed about the policy regarding gay men and lesbians in...

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Chargers, who might be without star tight end Antonio Gates on Sunday at Houston due to a foot injury, signed wide receiver Kelley Washington. Washington was signed two days after wide receiver Craig "Buster" Davis was placed on injured reserve because of a groin...

Criticism of WikiLeaks has put into question whether its founder, Julian Assange, will release more documents. Washington -- The online leak of thousands of secret military documents from the war in Afghanistan by the website WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will announce a new initiative to help boost college readiness and completion among U.S. students through the use of technology. The announcement will be made Monday afternoon...

Lockheed backs Gates on budget BETHESDA, Md., (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is on track with his calls to redefine defense spending to meet the 21st century threat environment, Lockheed Martin said. Gates complained to lawmakers this week that the Defense Department budget was...

Bill Gates wants more energy R&D NEW YORK, (UPI) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the U.S. government should triple spending on basic research and development of alternative sources of energy. Gates and the American Energy Innovation Council want spending increased to $16 billion a year...

Gates Foundation gives $1.5B for health WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend $1.5 billion during the next 5 years for maternal and child health, Melinda Gates said in Washington. "The world must come together to save women's and children's lives," Gates in...

Gates proposes rearranging $15B ABILENE, Kan., (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday he wants to take $15 billion from the Pentagon's bureaucracy and and use it for other purposes. Speaking to an audience at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kan., Gates said...